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SubjectRe: [RESEND][PATCH 2/2 v3] deal with guest panicked event
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:28:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 12:15 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> > When the host knows the guest is panicked, it will set
> > exit_reason to KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICKED. So if qemu receive
> > this exit_reason, we can send a event to tell management
> > application that the guest is panicked and set the guest
> > status to RUN_STATE_PANICKED.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> > ---
> > kvm-all.c | 5 +++++
> > monitor.c | 3 +++
> > monitor.h | 1 +
> > qapi-schema.json | 2 +-
> > qmp.c | 3 ++-
> > vl.c | 1 +
> > 6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
> > index 77eadf6..b3c9a83 100644
> > --- a/kvm-all.c
> > +++ b/kvm-all.c
> > @@ -1290,6 +1290,11 @@ int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *env)
> > (uint64_t)run->hw.hardware_exit_reason);
> > ret = -1;
> > break;
> > + case KVM_EXIT_GUEST_PANICKED:
> > + monitor_protocol_event(QEVENT_GUEST_PANICKED, NULL);
> > + vm_stop(RUN_STATE_PANICKED);
> > + ret = -1;
> > + break;
> >
>
> If the management application is not aware of this event, then it will
> never resume the guest, so it will appear hung.

Even if the mgmt app doesn't know about the QEVENT_GUEST_PANICKED, it should
still see a QEVENT_STOP event emitted by vm_stop() surely ? So it will
know the guest CPUs have been stopped, even if it isn't aware of the
reason why, which seems fine to me.

Daniel
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